Glenrothes
Glenrothes | |
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Administrative centre and town | |
From top, left to right: Aerial view of Riverside Park, 'Rothes Remembered' sculpture, 'The Hippo' sculpture in town centre, 'Giant Irises' sculpture Leslie Roundabout, Glenrothes war memorial and 'The Dream' sculpture, Falkland Gate and North Street in Glenrothes town centre | |
Location within Fife | |
Area | 8 sq mi (21 km2) |
Population | 38,360 (mid-2020 est.)[2] |
• Density | 4,795/sq mi (1,851/km2) |
OS grid reference | NO281015 |
• Edinburgh | 32 mi (51 km) |
• London | 444 mi (715 km) |
Council area | |
Lieutenancy area | |
Country | Scotland |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | GLENROTHES |
Postcode district | KY6, KY7 |
Dialling code | 01592 |
Police | Scotland |
Fire | Scottish |
Ambulance | Scottish |
UK Parliament | |
Scottish Parliament | |
Glenrothes (
Planned in the late 1940s, following World War II, as Scotland's second new town[3] its purpose was to generate economic growth and renewal in central Fife. Initially this was to be done by providing new homes, industries, infrastructure and services needed to support the development of a newly established National Coal Board 'super pit', the Rothes Colliery.[4] The mine closed early in its life and the town's economy thereafter transitioned and diversified, establishing it as an important centre for industry and playing a significant role in establishing Scotland's Silicon Glen between 1961 and 2000.[5] The name Glenrothes comes from its historical link with the Earl of Rothes, who owned much of the land on which the new town has been built; Glen (Scottish for valley) was added to the name to avoid confusion with Rothes in Moray and in recognition that the town lies in a river valley. The motto of Glenrothes is Ex terra vis, meaning "From the earth strength", which dates back to the founding of the town.[6][7][8]
The town has won multiple horticultural awards in the
History
Toponymy
The decision on the town's name was taken by the Fife Planning Committee which met in Cupar on 4 July 1947. Twelve names were considered for the new town prior to its formal designation. From the list of names Glenrothes and Westwood tied with five ballot votes each. Cadham, Drostain, Thaines and Woodside each received a single vote. The name Westwood was proposed by Provost Drummond, after Joseph Westwood, who was a strong advocate for the delivery of the new town, cut his political teeth in Fife and was Secretary of State for Scotland at the time. Glenrothes carried the day by eight votes to six on a second ballot despite the plea to recognise Westwood’s “services to the country”. In a tragic twist of fate Joseph Westwood died 18 days later in a car accident.[11]
The name Rothes comes from the association with the Earl of Rothes, of the Leslie family. This family historically owned much of the land on which Glenrothes has been built, and gave its name to the adjacent village of Leslie. "Glen" (from the Scottish Gaelic word gleann meaning valley) was added to prevent confusion with Rothes in Moray, and to reflect the location of the town within the River Leven valley.[6][7][8]
The different areas ("precincts") of Glenrothes have been named after the hamlets that were already established in the area (e.g. Cadham, Woodside), the farms which formally occupied the land (e.g. Caskieberran, Collydean, Rimbleton) or the historical estate homes in the area (e.g. Balbirnie, Balgeddie, Leslie Parks).[12]
Early known settlement
Glenrothes is home to the remains of ancient
There are a number of former country houses in Glenrothes. Balbirnie House, a category-A listed[17] Georgian period building, was bought along with its grounds in 1969 by the Glenrothes Development Corporation (GDC) from the Balfour family to be developed as Balbirnie Country Park and Golf Course.[18][19][20] The house was later occupied and restored by the GDC in 1981, to stop the property falling into disrepair. This led to interest, and the house was converted into a four-star hotel in 1989. The B-listed former stable block[21] of the house was converted into a craft centre.[18] Balgeddie House, a C-Listed[22] former residence of Sir Robert Spencer Nairn located in the northwest of the town and built in the 1930s, has also been converted into a hotel.[23] Leslie House, the category-A listed[24] 17th century former home of the Earl of Rothes (Clan Leslie), became a care home for the elderly in 1945; owned by the Church of Scotland. The building was in the process of being renovated, when the interior and roof of the house were destroyed by a fire in February 2009. However, proposals to restore the mansion were approved in 2019.[25] Much of the former grounds of Leslie House have been used to create Riverside Park. Collydean precinct hosts a ruin of a 17th-century house called Pitcairn House which was built for and first occupied by Archibald Pitcairne, a famous Scottish physician.[12]
The land which Glenrothes now occupies was largely agricultural, and once contained a number of small rural communities and the hamlets of Cadham[26] and Woodside, which were established to house workers at local paper mills.
Glenrothes new town
Glenrothes was designated in 1948
The original plan was to build a new settlement for a population of 32,000 to 35,000. The initial preferred option for the new town would have centred it on Markinch, building around the original settlement and utilising the existing services and infrastructure, including the rail station there. However the village's infrastructure was deemed unable to withstand the substantial growth that would be needed for a new town of the scale proposed and there was considerable local opposition to the plans.[6] Leslie and Thornton were also considered as possible locations, again meeting local opposition, and eventually the area between all of these villages, amounting to 5,320 acres (2,153 ha), was zoned for the new town's development.[33] Much of the historical Aytoun, Balfour, Balgonie and Rothes estates were included in Glenrothes' assigned area, along with the historical country houses Balbirnie House, Balgeddie House and Leslie House.[34][35]
Unlike the other post-war Scottish new towns,
Industrial history
Before Glenrothes was developed, the main industries in the area were papermaking, coal mining and farming. Local paper manufacturers included the Auchmuty and Rothes Mills (latterly Tullis Russell) and Balbirnie Mills (later Sappi Graphics) near Markinch in the east and the Fettykil (now the Sapphire Paper Mill)[37] and Prinlaws Mills to the west at Leslie. The paper mills were established along the banks of the River Leven, which provided energy to power their operations.[35]
Scotland had emerged from the Second World War in a strong position both to contribute to the UK's post-war reconstruction, and to help repay heavy overseas debt incurred in rearmament and six years of war. At the heart of
The Rothes Colliery, the new coal mine associated with the town's development, was built on land to the west of Thornton, an established village south of Glenrothes.
On 28 May 1963 Cadco Development Ltd held a press conference in Edinburgh to announce that they were bringing 2,000 jobs to Glenrothes. They were going to take three factories on the Queensway Industrial Estate; open pig breeding units at Whitehill; and build a supermarket in the town centre. Cadco's board of directors included the film star George Sanders and his wife Benita Hume alongside Denis Loraine and Tom Roe (Thomas Chambers Windsor Roe).[43] Loraine soon persuaded the Glenrothes Development Corporation that the construction work should be carried out by Cadco's own building company, which had opened a depot in nearby Kirkcaldy. By May 1964 Cadco were confident that their factories would soon start production, but by October all work had stopped because the Cadco Building Company had not paid its sub-contractors and suppliers. It transpired that Cadco did not have the money to back up its plans; and the banks and small companies who had respectively paid for and done the advance work found themselves out of pocket; and its employees lost their jobs. It turned out that the money the development corporation had paid to Cadco for building work had been used instead to help the failing Royal Victoria Sausages Company in Brighton. When the scam was exposed, the town's MP Willie Hamilton posed questions in the House of Commons and a Board of Trade inquiry was set up. As the hoped-for jobs evaporated, the development corporation, the Royal Bank of Scotland and others involved had to explain to the Board of Trade inspectors how they been taken in by Denis Loraine and Cadco. However no-one was ever prosecuted for their part in the affair in the United Kingdom. Historians speculate that this was because of the involvement, direct and indirect, of people in high places, particularly future Prime Minister, Edward Heath and Hollywood actress Jayne Mansfield. Investors alleged to be compromised by the scandal ranged from novelist Graham Greene to Charlie Chaplin. After the scandal broke, Loraine fled to the United States, only avoiding a long prison sentence by working under cover to help bring to justice those behind the biggest counterfeiting operation in US history.[44]
The closure of the Rothes Colliery almost halted the further development of Glenrothes. Soon afterwards however, central government modified the town's role by appointing it as an economic focal point for economic growth and development, one of several across Central Scotland to be developed as part of a Regional Plan.
Major industrial estates were developed to the south of Glenrothes, largely because it was near the proposed East Fife Regional Road (A92) which was developed in 1989, giving dual carriageway access to the main central Scotland road network.
Modern History
The GDC was finally wound up in 1995 after which responsibility for Glenrothes was largely transferred to Fife Council with assets such as the Kingdom Shopping Centre, industrial and office units sold off to private sector companies.[4] However, by 1995 the GDC had left a lasting legacy on the town by overseeing the development of over 15,000 houses, 5,174,125 square feet (480,692 m2) of industrial floorspace, 735,476 square feet (68,328 m2) of office floorspace and 576,977 square feet (53,603 m2) of shopping floorspace.[4] Since the winding up of the GDC Glenrothes continues to serve as Fife's principal administrative centre and serves a wider sub-regional area as a major centre for services and employment.[53]
In 2008, coinciding with the town's 60th anniversary, Canadian artist and researcher Sylvia Grace Borda chose to holiday for a week in Glenrothes. She was curious to explore the town as if she were a late-1960s photographer of common places, following on from a similar study of East Kilbride. The outcome was the production of a series of images which the artist believes contradict how some Scots would 'see' Glenrothes, reinforcing the observation that it often takes a visitor to see what others take for granted. The work sought to position itself so the everyday environment can cause the viewer to pause and regard the commonplace as extraordinary.[54][55][56]
Annual awards that were set up by Urban Realm and Carnyx Group in the mid-2000s to challenge the quality of built environments in Scotland saw Glenrothes awarded their Carbuncle Award in 2009.[57] The judges awarded Glenrothes the category of the most dismal place in Scotland for its "depressed and investment starved town centre".[58] This generated mixed and polarized views from locals and built environment professionals alike.[59] In the immediate aftermath of the award Urban Realm hosted a conference in the town named 'Saving Down Towns' to try to underline how great Glenrothes could be. Planners and architects were brought along to suggest possible ways forward for the town, as well as to discuss the challenges facing Scotland's urban centres in general.[57][60]
Paradoxically in 2010 the town won awards for being the "Best Kept Large Town" and the most "Clean, sustainable and beautiful community" in Scotland in the Beautiful Scotland competition[61][62] and was the winner in the "large town" category in the 2011 Royal Horticultural Society Britain in Bloom competition.[63][64] The town continued its horticultural success by achieving further Gold awards in the 2013 and 2014 UK finals.[65][66]
In 2011 then Historic Scotland completed an assessment of the town art in Glenrothes, ultimately awarding listed status to a number of artworks scattered throughout the town. The organisation also gave positive recognition to Glenrothes' significant role in helping to create the idea of art being a key factor in creating a sense of place.[67]
Glenrothes' place and importance in the history and development of Scotland has been enshrined in the Great Tapestry of Scotland, which was unveiled in 2013 in the Scottish Parliament.[68] The Glenrothes panel shows various pieces of the town's public artworks, along with visual references to its important industrial heritage associated originally with coal mining and later as a major centre for "Silicon Glen" industries.[69]
In mid-2015 Tullis Russell Papermakers, a stalwart to the local area economy for around 200 years, went into administration. The Scottish Government and Fife Council established a taskforce to help mitigate the effects of job losses and put in place appropriate support for a sustainable future for the area. Around £6 million was set aside to support the Fife Taskforce's Action Plan which included projects such as the Queensway Technology Park; supporting the regeneration of Queensway Industrial Estate to develop a modern business and technology park which can utilise the proximity to RWE's Biomass Power Generation facility and to a Green Data Centre.[70][9] The Glenrothes Enterprise Hub was another project delivered as a result of the task force support.[71][72] Redevelopment on the site of the former mills for mixed uses including around 800 new homes, retail, businesses and industry commenced in early 2022.[73]
The Glenrothes Energy Network was progressed in 2017 to utilise the heat from the RWE Markinch Biomass CHP plant which was formally opened in March 2015. The project was a collaboration between Fife Council, RWE and the Scottish Government. It was awarded Scottish Government funding in May 2017 as part of the Scottish Energy Strategy, which aims to deliver around 50 per cent of the energy required for Scotland's heat, transport and electricity needs from renewable sources by 2030. Construction of the heat network commenced in June 2018 and the network became operational in April 2019 making it Scotland's first 100% renewable biomass heat and power district network. The network was officially opened by the Scottish Minister for Energy, Connectivity and the Islands, Paul Wheelhouse. In 2019 the project won the Cities & Communities award at the Decentralized Energy Awards organised by the Association for Decentralised Energy.[74] It supplies low carbon heat to Council offices, local businesses and homes in Glenrothes.[75][76][77]
Governance
In the early years of the creation of the new town the Glenrothes Development Corporation (GDC) with input from the local authority, then Fife County Council, and later Kirkcaldy District Council and Fife Regional Council, oversaw the governance. There was some controversy in this arrangement in that Glenrothes was the only new town designated in the UK without the power to agree to any planning applications that fell within its boundary with such decisions taken by either Kirkcaldy District or Fife Regional Councils.[78] There were proposals to formally establish a Glenrothes District Council but this was overtaken by proposals for broader local government reorganisation that took place in the 1990s. Also in the early 1990s the then Conservative UK Government established a wind-up order for all of the UK's new town development corporations. Responsibilities for the assets, management and governance of all of the new towns were to be transferred to either private sector companies, or to the local authorities or other government organisations.[4]
Glenrothes is represented by a number of tiers of elected government. North Glenrothes Community Council and Pitteuchar, Stenton and Finglassie Community Council form the lowest tier of governance whose statutory role is to communicate local opinion to local and central government.[79]
The town forms part of the county constituency of Glenrothes, electing one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom by the first past the post system. Peter Grant of the Scottish National Party is the MP for Glenrothes after being elected in the 2015 general election and the snap election in 2017.[83]
For the purposes of the Scottish Parliament, Glenrothes forms part of the Mid Fife and Glenrothes constituency following the 2011 Scottish elections. This constituency replaced the former Central Fife constituency.[84] Each constituency elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post system of election, and the region elects seven additional members to produce a form of proportional representation. Following the 2016 and 2021 Scottish Elections the constituency is represented by Jenny Gilruth MSP of the Scottish National Party.
Geography
Glenrothes lies inland and is located in mid-Fife between the agricultural Howe of Fife in the north and east and Fife's industrial heartland in the south and west. Its immediate neighbouring settlements are Coaltown of Balgonie, Leslie, Markinch and Thornton, whose boundaries are virtually indistinguishable from Glenrothes' forming a contiguous urban area.[85] The villages of Kinglassie, Milton of Balgonie and Star are located slightly further away and are physically separated from Glenrothes by farmland. Kirkcaldy, a former royal burgh, port and industrial town is the next nearest large settlement located approximately 7 miles (11 km) to the south on the coast of the Firth of Forth. Glenrothes is also located equidistant from two of Fife's other historically important principal settlements, Dunfermline and St Andrews, at 19 miles (31 km) and 21 miles (34 km) away. Two of Scotland's major cities, Edinburgh and Dundee, are located almost equidistantly from Glenrothes at 32 miles (51 km) and 27 miles (43 km) away, respectively. The smaller Scottish city of Perth is located 23 miles (37 km) to the northwest.
The northern parts of the settlement lie upland on the southern fringes of the Lomond Hills Regional Park. The central parts of the town extend between the Warout Ridge and the southern edge of the River Leven valley; a substantial green space which passes east west through the town. Southern parts of Glenrothes are largely industrial and are situated on land which gently slopes south towards the Lochty Burn and the village of Thornton.[86] The height above mean sea level at the town centre is 300 feet (91 m).[87] Temperatures in Glenrothes, like the rest of Scotland, are relatively moderate given its northern latitude. Fife is a peninsula, located between the Firth of Tay in the north, the Firth of Forth in the south and the North Sea in the east. Summers are relatively cool and the warming of the water over the summer results in warm winters. Average annual temperatures in Glenrothes range from a maximum of 18 °C (64 °F) to a minimum of 9 °C (48 °F).[88]
A linked network of semi-natural landscape areas throughout the town allow for a mix of
Built environment and urban form
Careful consideration was given to the form and infrastructure of the town, focusing on the creation of individual suburban type neighbourhoods (precincts), each with their own architectural identity. Engineers, planners, builders and architects were tasked with creating not only good quality mass-produced housing but green spaces, tree planting, wildlife corridors and soft and hard landscaping. This was seen as an equally important part of the process, helping to provide a sense of place and connection to the land that a New Town was felt to need in order to become a successful place where people would want to live and raise children. Separating industry from housing areas in planned industrial estates was a key element of early plans.[95] This was at the time seen as an important change from the "chaotic", congested and polluted industrial towns and cities of the previous centuries where cramped unsanitary housing and dirty industries were built in close proximity to one another.
The vision for Glenrothes was to provide a clean, healthy and safe environment for the town's residents and much of the housing, as in most other new towns (especially in Scotland) took the form of council housing built by the Glenrothes Development Corporation.[33] The provision of council housing, part of a nation-wide trend towards this type of tenure, gave the local development corporation an even greater overall ability to implement its vision of a planned built environment while also fulfilling one of the primary aims of the new towns: to create affordable housing for workers in areas that were to be centres of new industry and economic growth.[96] The new homes simultaneously provided affordable housing for people being relocated from crowded "slum" areas in the industrial Central Belt (and Glasgow in particular), though the latter was less of priority for Glenrothes initially compared to other Scottish new towns such as East Kilbride and Cumbernauld which were more specifically planned to fulfill a so-called "overspill" function.
The settlement has been purposely planned using a series of masterplans. Development of Glenrothes started in Woodside in the east and progressed westwards with the first town masterplan implemented as far as South Parks and Rimbleton housing precincts.[97][98] Early neighbourhoods were based on Ebenezer Howard's Garden City philosophy, using relatively tried and tested principles of town planning and architecture which is reflected in their housing styles and layouts.[29] The first town masterplan sub-divided the town's designated area into self-contained residential precincts with their own primary schools, local shops and community facilities, consistent with other new towns being built elsewhere in the UK in the same period.[33]
A second town masterplan was then developed in the late 1960s following Glenrothes' change of role and was to accommodate an increased population of 50,000–70,000. New areas of land in the north and south of the designated area were identified for new development.[99] The road network was redesigned and upgraded to deal with projected increases in car ownership and new housing estates were developed to the west, then to the south and finally to the north of the designated area.[100]
The housing precincts of the 1960s and 1970s, developed under the second masterplan, departed slightly from the garden city ideals instead adopting
Housing precincts from the 1980s onwards were largely developed by the
Geology
The Glenrothes area's geology is predominantly made up of glacial deposits with the subsoil largely consisting of
Climate
Like most of central
Demography
In 1950 the population in the Glenrothes designated area was about 1,000 people, located in the hamlets of Woodside and Cadham and in the numerous farm steadings that were spread throughout the area.[103] Population growth in the early phases of the town was described as slow due to the dependence on the growth of jobs at the Rothes Colliery. In 1960 the town population was shown to have increased to 12,499 people, and it had risen to 28,098 by 1969.[103] The fastest growth was between 1964 and 1969, with average inward migration of 1,900 persons per year.[104] In 1981 Glenrothes' population was estimated at 35,000[104] and at the time the GDC was disbanded in 1995 it was estimated to be just over 40,000.[105]
Glenrothes | Fife | Scotland | |
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Total population | 39,277 | 365,198 | 5,295,403 |
Percentage Scottish identity only | 68.5% | 63.8% | 62.4% |
Over 75 years old | 6.8% | 7.9% | 7.7% |
Unemployed | 6% | 4% | 4.8% |
The 2001 census recorded the population of Glenrothes at 38,679 representing 11% of Fife's total population.[107] The 2011 census recorded a 1.5% population rise to 39,277.[108]
The total population in the wider Glenrothes area was estimated at 49,817 in 23,596 households in 2022. 61% of the population is of working age (16–64 years). Glenrothes is similar to Fife for the percentage of homes which are owner occupied (62%) social rented (25%) or private rented (11%). The Area has a higher employment rate (74.5%), and a lower rate of those who are classed as economically inactive (21.8%) than Fife. Employment (10.9%) and income deprivation (13.8%) are just above the levels for Fife as a whole. 91.9% of 16-19 year olds are participating in education, employment or training, showing similar patterns to Fife across all categories.[109] The Glenrothes (UK Parliament constituency) Area's median weekly income was calculated at £559.10 (residents earnings) and £567.10 (workplace earnings) in 2022.[110]
The working age population of the town in 2011 was 29,079 as recorded by the census. The percentage of population economically active in Glenrothes was recorded at 75.2% in 2021.
Economy
Glenrothes | Fife | Scotland | |
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Area Committee[115] Total population | 50,701 | 366,910 | 5,327,700 |
All persons 16–74 in employment | 23,493 | 167,326 | 2,516,895 |
% Primary industry | 3.0% | 2.4% | 3.3% |
% Manufacturing | 14.9% | 10.0% | 7.7% |
% Utilities
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1.3% | 1.4% | 1.6% |
% Construction | 8.2% | 8.2% | 8.0% |
% | 19.4% | 18.6% | 19.9% |
% food
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4.8% | 5.6% | 6.3% |
% ICT | 2.2% | 3.0% | 2.7% |
% Finance & professional | 15.6% | 19.1% | 20.1% |
% Public sector | 8.6% | 7.8% | 7.0% |
% health sector
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21.9% | 23.8% | 23.4% |
The Glenrothes area's economy predominantly comprises
Industry
The 2011 census showed that manufacturing accounted for almost 15% of employment in Glenrothes.
In 2013 Indian beverages group Kyndal entered into a joint venture with John Fergus & Co Ltd to establish a new
Roof window manufacturer
Retail, leisure and service sectors
Retail jobs accounted for approximately 11% of the total number of jobs in the local economy in 2011.
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Kingdom Shopping Centre western entrance
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M&S Foodhall, Glenrothes town centre
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Tenpin facility, Glenrothes town centre
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The Golden Acorn Hotel
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Balbirnie House Hotel
Community and commercial leisure facilities within the town centre include the Rothes Halls complex; Glenrothes' principal theatre, library, civic and exhibition centre. A cinema, restaurant, pub and bingo hall complex are located adjacent to the Kingdom Centre at Carrick Gate/Church Street.[133] Ten-pin bowling facilities are available at Albany Gate.[134][135] A number of retail operators including the town's major supermarkets are also located in the Queensway business park located adjacent to the town centre.[136] The town's largest retail employers, Asda and Morrisons, both trade from large stores there. A retail park has also been constructed at the Saltire Centre, approximately half of a mile (1 km) to the southwest of the town centre containing major stores including Matalan and Homebase.[137]
Other types of service industries also add to the town's economic mix with large single employers being in the 'accommodation and food services' sector which accounted for around 4% of the town's total jobs.
Financial and professional services represent 15.6% of the total number of jobs.
Public and voluntary sectors
A number of public service and
Regeneration and future development
A range of development projects are proposed to regenerate the town centre steered by a masterplan that was approved by the Glenrothes Area Committee in March 2021. This seeks to address a variety of negative trends including addressing the reduction in retail operators and office floorspace in the town centre due to changing market and working requirements and rationalisation of Fife Council's office estate. The masterplan also recommends celebrating the unique legacy of public art bequeathed to the town, introducing new business opportunities outwith the Kingdom Shopping Centre, creating new public spaces and meeting areas including a new town square, and supporting an enhanced evening economy.[142][143] Older parts of the Kingdom Shopping Centre at Albany Gate are proposed to be demolished and redeveloped.[144][145] A mixed use redevelopment of the former police station site at Napier Road was outlined in the masterplan and proposals for this site were approved by Fife Council in early 2023.[146][147] Fife Council announced in 2023 its intention to demolish Rothesay House as part of ongoing regeneration activity in the town centre.[148][149]
Glenrothes is to be home to the UK's First 100% Green Data Centre which is to be built at Queensway Technology Park.[150] Once complete this will represent a significant economic development for the area and will play a strategically important part in Scotland's IT infrastructure transformation as a whole. The £40 million development will create over 300 construction jobs during the build process and up to 50 full-time posts created on completion, including technical and operational staff. The facility will be the first of its kind in the UK drawing its energy from a renewable source with power coming directly from the RWE biomass plant in the town. Queensway Data Centre will accommodate up to 1500 high performance computer racks offering the highest levels of resilience and data security. The facility will be built to a BREEAM outstanding standard with a power usage effectiveness rating of less than 1.15.[151][152]
There are also proposals to support the regeneration of the western neighbourhoods, centered around the Glenwood centre. A charrette was held in 2017, facilitated by PAS and supported by design experts, Fife Council and the Scottish Government to inform an action plan for the future of the area.[153][154] The Glenwood Centre was subsequently demolished in 2023 making way for the regeneration of the area. Plans include replacing the demolished centre with mixture of modern properties, commercial units and a community hub.[155]
Major housing developments are taking place in the area, including at the former Tullis Russell papermills,[156] Cadham Road, Markinch South and at Westwood Park which will collectively deliver over a thousand new build homes between 2022 and 2030.[157]
The
Culture and community
Public artworks
In 1968 Glenrothes was the first town in the UK to appoint a town artist. This is now recognised as playing a significant role, both in a Scottish and in an international context, in helping to create the idea of art being a key factor in creating a sense of place.[67] Two town artists, David Harding (1968–78) and Malcolm Robertson (1978–91), were employed in the lifetime of the Glenrothes Development Corporation (GDC).[161][162] Both artists, supported by a number of assistants, created a large variety of artworks and sculptures that are scattered throughout the town.[163]
Other artists have also contributed to the creation of the town's artworks.[164] The first sculpture erected in Glenrothes was "Ex Terra", created by Benno Schotz which was inspired by the town's motto Ex Terra Vis (Latin) meaning "From the earth strength".[165] "The Good Samaritan" sculpture in Riverside Park was produced by Edinburgh-based sculptor, Ronald Rae, who was commissioned by the GDC to produce a piece of art work in celebration of the town's 40th anniversary in 1988.[161] The concrete hippos scattered throughout the town were designed and created by Stanley Bonnar who went on to be the town artist at East Kilbride.[166][167]
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"The Heritage" by David Harding
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"Ex Terra" sculpture by Benno Schotz
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"The Good Samaritan" by Ronald Rae
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"The Defenceless One" by Rudolf Christian Baisch
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"The Birds" by Malcolm Robertson
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"The Disappearing Hippo" by Stanley Bonnar
Four pieces of Glenrothes artworks have been awarded
Coinciding with the town's 75th anniversary on 30 June 2023 a new public artwork was unveiled in the town centre named "The Disappearing Hippo", created by Stanley Bonnar. It is constructed using recycled tin cans and other sustainable materials bringing a conservation message. The new design presents a solid hippo gradually disappearing; a symbol of the global demise of this species, due to poaching and global warming.[173]
Civic and heritage facilities
Rothes Halls is the town's main theatre, exhibition, conference and civic centre.
A war memorial was constructed in Glenrothes in 2007 following the deaths of two local Black Watch soldiers in Iraq. Prior to this Glenrothes was in the unusual position of not being able to host its own Remembrance Sunday commemorations. Unlike traditional memorials, the Glenrothes war memorial consists of two interlinking rings of standing stones.[181]
Community hospital facilities
Social clubs, organisations and community events
There are a number of social clubs and organisations operating within Glenrothes which contribute to the cultural and community offerings of the town. These include an
Public parks and horticulture
The town has won numerous awards locally and nationally for the quality of its landscaping;[61][64] something that is promoted by the "Take a Pride in Glenrothes" (TAPIG) group.[62] The Glenrothes Development Corporation devoted around one third of land in Glenrothes to the provision of open space.[94] As a consequence the town has numerous parks, the largest being Balbirnie Park,[16] Carleton Park,[189] Gilvenbank Park,[190] Riverside Park,[191] and Warout Park.[192][193] The Lomond Hills Regional Park borders and enters the town to the north and east.[194]
Sports facilities, clubs and events
The town has a large variety of established sports and leisure facilities. This includes two 18-hole golf courses (Glenrothes and Balbirnie), outdoor
The town's football club is Glenrothes F.C., they compete in the East of Scotland League and play at Warout Stadium. The local rugby club is Glenrothes RFC who are based at Carleton Park and there is also a local cricket club who play at Gilvenbank Park.[199][18][200] The Road Running Festival in Glenrothes is the largest annual sporting event in the town with over 1500 people of all ages and levels of fitness taking part and has been held annually since 1983.[201] The town is also an established destination in hosting the BDO British International Championships for darts which are held annually at the town's CISWO club.[202][203][204]
Town twinning
Glenrothes has a twin-town link with Böblingen, a city in Baden-Württemberg in Germany since 1971.[205] As early as 1962 a local councillor had suggested that the town might "twin" with a town on the Continent.[206] Some years later a friendship grew up between teachers at Glenrothes High School and the Gymnasium in Böblingen which eventually led to the twinning of the towns. Since then there have been a number of exchanges on official, club and personal levels.[206]
Notable residents
Famous people associated with the town include the actor Dougray Scott who grew up in Glenrothes and attended Auchmuty High School.
Douglas Mason, known as one of the engineers of the "Thatcher revolution" and the "father of the poll tax", set up home in Glenrothes in the 1960s and lived most of his adult life there.[207]
Henry McLeish, the former First Minister of Scotland, lived in Glenrothes, having been brought up in nearby Kennoway. Glenrothes town centre is home to the building involved in the notorious Officegate scandal, which ultimately led to McLeish's resignation as First Minister in 2001.
Tricia Marwick, the first female Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament, served as MSP for Glenrothes.[208][209]
John Wallace
The town has also been home to current and former professional football players including
Sergeant were a four-piece indie rock band established in Glenrothes. In 2007 they signed a contract with Mercury Records and played at a number of musical festivals including T in the Park and Glastonbury. The band also supported Oasis on four Scottish dates and also the Fratellis on their full UK tour.
Landmarks
The River Leven Bridge, also known locally as the 'White Bridge',
A number of Glenrothes' artworks and sculptures act as landmarks at major gateways into the town, such as the "Giant Irises" at Leslie Roundabout, and the Glenrothes "Gateway Totum" at Bankhead Roundabout.[86] Former town artist Malcolm Robertson produced the "Giant Irises" sculpture as Glenrothes' contribution to the Glasgow Garden Festival. The sculpture was the winner of the John Brown Clydebank award for the "Most Original and Amusing Artifact" and following the festival, it was re-erected at Leslie Roundabout.[161][214] A number of other sculptures were relocated in 2011 to more visually prominent locations around the town creating new landmarks.[215][216]
The town is also home to a number of churches which act as important landmarks due to their unique architectural styles and sometimes their locations at key road junctions. The three earliest churches are now
Balgonie Castle located to the east of Glenrothes on the south bank of the River Leven near Milton of Balgonie and Coaltown of Balgonie is a local landmark on the eastern approach to Glenrothes from Levenmouth. The castle keep dates from the 14th century, and the remaining structures were added piecemeal until the 18th century. The keep has been recently restored, although other parts of the castle are roofless ruins. The castle was awarded category A listing in 1972 by Historic Scotland.[226]
Education
Early precincts in the town were served by their own primary schools which were to be provided on the basis of one school for every 1,000 houses.
Secondary Schools were originally to be provided on the basis of one school for every 4,000 houses.
Further education in the town is provided at Fife College. Construction of a Glenrothes college campus began in the early 1970s, originally specialising in paper manufacturing, mechanical engineering and electrical engineering courses. A second institute known as FIPRE (Fife Institute of Physical and Recreational Education) was built adjacent catering for sport and physical education as well as providing a sports centre for the town.[227] The Glenrothes campus of the college is located at Stenton Road in Viewfield.[237] This was significantly extended in 2010 with the development of the "Future Skills Centre". It includes departments in engineering, construction, renewables and science to cater for emerging industries specialising in renewable energy and low carbon technologies as well as provide training for major engineering projects.[238]
Transport
Glenrothes has a planned road network with original masterplans establishing the principle that "through traffic" be bypassed around the housing precincts by a network of "Freeway" and "Highway" distributor roads. These would connect each precinct to the purposely designed town centre and to the industrial estates.[239] Another element that was adopted was the use of roundabouts at junctions instead of traffic lights which would allow traffic to flow freely.[239]
The town has direct dual-carriageway access to the M90 via the A92 Trunk Road. The A92 passes north–south through the town and connects Glenrothes with Dundee in the north and Dunfermline in the southwest where it merges with the M90. This gives Glenrothes a continuous dual-carriageway link to Edinburgh and the major central Scotland road networks, whilst much of the route north to Dundee remains a single-carriageway.[29] Local campaigners have for a number of years sought the upgrade of the A92 north of Glenrothes.[240]
The A911 road passes east/west through the town and connects it with Levenmouth in the east and Milnathort and the M90 in the west.[241] The B921 Kinglassie Road, described in early masterplans as the Southern Freeway,[239] links Glenrothes to the former mining communities of Cardenden and Kinglassie, and to Westfield. The route is a dual carriageway between Bankhead Roundabout and as far west as Fife Airport. Early masterplans show that this route was originally intended to be upgraded to provide dualled connections to the A92 Chapel junction in Kirkcaldy,[239] however this was never implemented.
The town has a major bus station in the town centre providing frequent links to the cities of Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Perth as well as to surrounding towns and villages.[242]
Two railway stations on the edge of the main town serve the Glenrothes area - Glenrothes with Thornton railway station and Markinch railway station.[241] Upon designation of the new town in the 1940's branch lines operated from Markinch, connecting to Leslie and to the Tullis Russell papermill passing through the new town area. The Leslie branch line closed in 1967 as part of the Beeching cuts and later became Boblingen Way, a pedestrian and cycle route.[243] The Tullis Russell (Auchmuty Mill) branch line closed in 1992 with the majority converted as a pedestrian and cycle route.[244]
Glenrothes is home to an airfield,
A purposely designed pedestrian and cycle system[247] was also created using a network of ring and radial routes throughout the town.[239] This includes a near three mile continuous linear cycle path, called Boblingen Way, which extends across the length of Glenrothes, from Leslie in the west, to Woodside in the east.[248]
Glenrothes is connected to the National Cycle Network via Route 766 which runs north from Kirkcaldy to north of Glenrothes, linking to the wider network via Route 76 and Route 1.[249] The Fife Pilgrim Way is a long-distance walking route covering a distance of around 64 miles between Culross, connecting a number of Fife's villages, towns and countryside and terminating in St Andrews. The route passes through Glenrothes on a section of the route between Kinglassie in the southwest and Markinch in the east.[250]
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External links
- [1] (A selection of archive films about Glenrothes)